Humans beat generative AI models made by Google and OpenAI at a top international mathematics competition, despite the programmes reaching gold-level scores for the first time.

Since 1959, the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) has served as one of the world’s premiere events for young— human —math whizzes. Many mathematicians would need longer than their allotted time to answer just one of the IMO’s problems—and most people wouldn’t be able to solve any of them.